Business: Exports: Going Up

If U.S. businessmen last week found little to encourage them in sales at home, they found plenty in their performance in world markets. U.S. exports will not only rise this year to a record $20 billion (v. 1959's $16.4 billion), reported the Commerce Department, but should do as well in 1961.

The Commerce Department's forecast was also good news for the U.S. Government, which had expected exports to slip next year, thus worsen the U.S. balance-of-payments problem. Big exports of aircraft and raw cotton in 1960 were considered to be one-shot performances that would not be repeated in 1961. Last week the...

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